Installing a RHEL8 system with Driver Disk Update for various network interface cards shows an error message "modprobe: FATAL: Module <driver> is in use." or similar on the console

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Issue

  • When using inst.dd on the kernel command line to load a Driver Disk Update for QLogic NetXtreme II network cards, the following messages are seen during boot

    dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: FATAL: Module cnic is in use.
    dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert '<driver>': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
    
  • When using inst.dd on the kernel commandline to load a Driver Disk Update for QLogic FastLinQ 4xxxx network cards, the following messages are seen during boot

    dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: FATAL: Module qed is in use.
    dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'qedr': Invalid argument
    dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert '<driver>': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
    
  • When using inst.dd on the kernel command line to load a Driver Disk Update for Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E network cards, the following messages are seen during boot

    kernel:(NULL device *): bnxt_re: probe error: bnxt_en ulp version magic 2 is not compatible!
    kernel:(NULL device *): bnxt_re: probe error: bnxt_en ulp version magic 2 is not compatible!
    
  • The installation continues anyway without issue

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

    • anaconda
    • Driver Disk Update
  • Network cards

    • QLogic NetXtreme II (bnx2fc/bnx2i/bnx2x/cnic drivers)
    • QLogic FastLinQ 4xxxx (qed/qede/qedf/qedi drivers)
    • Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E RoCE (bnxt_re driver)

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